Ipswich Town attacker Marcus Harness has joined Championship club Derby County on a season-long loan.

The versatile forward joined the Blues from Portsmouth for £600k in 2022, with striker Joe Pigott going in the opposite direction on loan, and went on to consistently feature during the club's back-to-back promotions into the Premier League.

Having scored 12 goals in 38 starts and 51 sub appearances, the 28-year-old has been pushed down the pecking order by the summer signings of Jack Clarke, Sammie Szmodics and Chiedozie Ogbene, with Arsenal winger Reiss Nelson also set to arrive on loan before tonight's 11pm deadline.

He is reunited with former Town team-mate Kayden Jackson at Pride Park.

Following Freddie Ladapo's earlier departure by mutual consent, Town are now down to 26 senior players. You can register a maximum of 25 for the Premier League.

George Edmundson is expected to join Middlesbrough on loan before tonight's 11pm deadline.

Speaking earlier today, Blues boss Kieran McKenna said: “We will have a few players likely move on over the next 24 hours that will always go with our best wishes. Some might be a loan move which doesn’t mean it’s the end of their time at a football club. It might just mean players need to go on and get minutes.

"With such an emotional attachment to the whole group, with what we have been through over the last couple of years, it is always difficult any time anyone moves on, but it's a good feeling when they leave in a better position than they were."

 

TOWN SUMMER BUSINESS

IN (12): Aro Muric (£8m, Burnley), Ben Johnson (free, West Ham), Dara O'Shea (Burnley, £12m), Jacob Greaves (Hull, £15m), Conor Townsend (£500k, West Brom), Kalvin Phillips (loan, Man City), Jens Cajuste (loan, Napoli), Omari Hutchinson (£18m, Chelsea), Chiedozie Ogbene (Luton, £8m), Sammie Szmodics (£9m, Blackburn), Jack Clarke (£15m, Sunderland), Liam Delap (£15m, Man City).

OUT (18): Vaclav Hladky (Burnley, Bosman free), Marcus Harness (Derby, loan), George Edmundson (Middlesbrough, loan), Cameron Humphreys (Wycombe, loan), Janoi Donacien, Dom Ball (both released), Kayden Jackson (Derby, free), Sone Aluko (retired), Gassan Ahadme (Charlton, £1m), Idris El Mizouni (Oxford, £400k), Corrie Ndaba (Kilmarnock, undisc), Elkan Baggott (Blackpool, loan), Panutche Camara (Crawley, free), Freddie Ladapo (mutual consent), Kieffer Moore, Jeremy Sarmiento, Brandon Williams, Lewis Travis (loans expired). 

 

TOWN SQUAD 

GK: Muric, Walton, Slicker

RB: Johnson, Clarke, Tuanzebe

CB: O'Shea, Greaves, Woolfenden, Burgess

LB: Davis, Townsend

CM: Morsy, Phillips, Cajuste, Luongo, Taylor

RW: Hutchinson*, Ogbene, Burns

AMC: Szmodics, Chaplin

LW: Clarke, Broadhead

ST: Delap*, Hirst,  Al-Hamadi

* Don't count towards 25-man squad limit due to age